By WALTER GIBBS

Published: May 9, 2007

The police arrested a 40-year-old native of Bosnia, now a Norwegian citizen, on suspicion of committing war crimes against Bosnian Serbs while serving in an ethnically Croatian military unit in 1992. The man, who in keeping with Norwegian police practice was not identified, faces up to 21 years in a Norway prison if convicted on charges of assault, rape and illegal detention at a prison camp during the wars over the former Yugoslavia. The police have said they are investigating 70 immigrants to Norway who are suspected of war crimes in a number of countries. The arrested man arrived in Norway with his family in 1993 and received citizenship in 2001. WALTER GIBBS